Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Debian 13: troubleshooting connecting to wifi using cmd nmcli

I prefer to use command line because mostly server does not  installed window manager. I need to familiar to use command line in any situation.

To show wifi radio enable

# nmcli radio wifi
enabled

To turn on radio wifi

# nmcli radio wifi on

To list available wifi

# nmcli device wifi list
IN-USE  BSSID              SSID   
...

To rescan available wifi

# nmcli dev wifi rescan

To connect to wifi access point

# nmcli device wifi connect "[your_SSID]" password "[your_password]"
...

To show connection

# nmcli connection show
NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE
...

Note: parameter dev is short from device

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Debian 13 icewm/openbox/fluxbox: using pavucontrol & pulseaudio

 Install pavucontrol & pulseaudio

# apt-get install pavucontrol pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
...

To run pavecontrol in terminal

$ pulseaudio&


Monday, September 1, 2025

pyhton3: read xlsx using open3pyxl

Install open3pyxl library on Debian system

# apt-get install open3pyxl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
...

Install open3pyxl library on user virtual environment (not messing with python used by Debian)

(venv) [user]@[hostname]:~/mypyenv$ pip list
Package Version
------- -------
pip     25.1.1
(venv) [user]@[hostname]:~/mypyenv$ pip install openpyxl
Collecting openpyxl
  Downloading openpyxl-3.1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.5 kB)
Collecting et-xmlfile (from openpyxl)
  Downloading et_xmlfile-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.7 kB)
Downloading openpyxl-3.1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (250 kB)
Downloading et_xmlfile-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (18 kB)
Installing collected packages: et-xmlfile, openpyxl
Successfully installed et-xmlfile-2.0.0 openpyxl-3.1.5

(venv) [user]@[hostname]:~/mypyenv$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
et_xmlfile 2.0.0
openpyxl   3.1.5
pip        25.1.1

Here is sample script to enumerate row and column

import openpyxl
from datetime import datetime

path = "./[replace_with_your_file].xlsx"

# wb_obj = openpyxl.load_workbook(path) # Open xlsx without option
wb_obj = openpyxl.load_workbook(path, data_only=True) # Open xlsx with option Data Only

## object sheet
# using active sheet
#sheet_obj = wb_obj.active
## using Sheet1
sheet_obj = wb_obj["Sheet1"]

# Sheet start from 1,1 not 0,0
# Access cell at row 1, column 1
#cell_obj = sheet_obj.cell(row=1, column=1)
#print("Cell 1 column 1 is ",cell_obj.value)

# to print row 1 column 20
#cell_obj = sheet_obj.cell(row=1, column=20)
#print("Cell 1 column 20 is ",cell_obj.value)

# Enumerate row
# first row is header
# max_row may contains empty row
for i in range (2, sheet_obj.max_row):
    cell_obj = sheet_obj.cell(row=i, column=1)
    if cell_obj.value is not None:
        # enumerate column
        # we need fix column e.q 6 column from 1 to 6
        # Do not use max_column
        # for j in range (1, max_column): # Do not use this, use fix number
        for j in range (1, 6):
            mycell_obj = sheet_obj.cell(row=i, column=j)
            #if mycell_obj is not None: # if you use
max_column, this will not working, only working for row
            print(mycell_obj.value, " | ", end='') # print without new line
        print() # print a new line
    else:
        # the row is empty we break
        print() # print a new line
        break